A Dog Called Grk
For my Creative Writing Workshop, I need to write some YA or children’s fiction (it’s that or performance poetry…and I think I’d prefer root canal surgery sans anaesthetic to standing in front of an audience reciting pp).
Acutely aware that my knowledge of YA and kid-litt is almost forty years out of date, I followed Mimi’s advice and went down to Mr B’s in Bath, where I purchased a couple of titles. I was also hugely reassured that lot of books that I read all those years ago are still available and even recommended.
One of the new titles that I bought was Joshua Doder’s A Dog Called Grk, which is quite simply wonderful.
So, if you’re curious as to why I’m reviewing children’s fiction, that’s the reason. (You may have put it down to increasing eccentricity, in which case you may not be too wrong, either <g>)
If you have a 9 – 12 child, go and buy it for them. If you don’t have children, but you like dogs, buy it anyway. Actually, just buy it.
